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FREE Nekropolis short story
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I’m a big fan of the short story – anyone who knows me will tell you that. Well, they’ll tell you if you ask them – it’s not the sort of thing that would necessarily be voluntarily offered. Have you seen Lee? He likes short stories, you know. Won’t happen.
But I digress…
The sequel to Tim Waggoner’s wonderful Nekropolis is published in the UK and Australia from next week. Dead Streets gives you everything you loved about the first book, and more! And as a special treat for all you lovely people living out there in internet-land, we have a free short story set in Nekropolis. If you’ve not read the first book yet, all you need to know to get started is that Matt Richter (our hero) is a zombie and former cop, and his paramour, Devona, is half-vampire.
I flicked the flashlight’s switch and played its beam around to get my bearings. It was just as Devona had said: a foyer with stone walls and ceiling and a marble tiled floor. Nice enough, in a cold, Spartan way, but nothing to e-mail home about. There were sconces on the walls where greenfire torches had undoubtedly once burned to light the place, but the mystic flames had died away decades ago, and without an Arcane torchlighter to rekindle them, it looked like we were stuck with my flashlight.
As we started slowly down the foyer, I said, “So, are you going to tell me why this place is supposed to be haunted?”
Now head on over to Next Read to enjoy the full story.
Some awesome sample chapters from next month’s releases
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What a cracking trio of samples we have for you today!
Here are some sample chapters from our March titles (all out on 4th March in the UK, later in the year for the US and Canada).
We will be offering free sample chapters of all of our titles prior to release, because you’re worth it.
All rights reserved.
However, feel free to share these sample chapters with anyone you wish, or to post them on your own site. And if you like them, buy Ian’s, Tim’s and/or Maurice’s book(s).
Please note that the formatting will vary from that of the final commercial product. Click on the PDF icon to download the sample.
City of Dreams and Nightmare by Ian Whates
King Maker by Maurice Broaddus
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and don’t forget we have three incredible books out today:
Feel free to share these sample chapters with anyone you wish, or to post them on your own site. And if you like them, buy Guy’s, Thomas’ and/or Kaaron’s book(s).
Edge by Thomas Blackthorne (aka John Meaney)
Walking the Tree – now with free novella!
Posted by: | CommentsAngry Robot set its stall out from the very start as an imprint that would be trying different approaches to delivering stories. Over the last year we’ve been fortunate to be in a prime position to take advantage of the surge in eBook editions. Now here’s another idea we’d like to run past you.
While writing Walking the Tree, ace AR author Kaaron Warren naturally concentrated on her central character, Lillah. But as she explored that woman’s incredible journey around Botanica’s immense Tree, she became just as fascinated with the story of one of her young companions, Morace.
So fascinated, in fact… that she rewrote the whole book from Morace’s point of view! Well, we couldn’t just hide that away and so, if you buy a physical copy of Walking the Tree you’ll find, amongst our usual swathe of extras and freebies at the end, the first two chapters of his story… and a secret download link and password, that will allow you to download or read the entire novella. And if you get the eBook edition, well, you get the whole thing as an added extra.
Who knows – perhaps this sort of thing could catch on. I’m sure we could all think of secondary characters whose adventures we’d like to read from their POV. And plenty more who we wouldn’t, of course.
Links Round-up
Posted by: | CommentsSome interesting stuff…
A great review of Slights by the ever-talented Kaaron Warren over at AS If…
At its dark heart, this is a novel about families and how they function, or fail to function, after tragedy. Stevie is the broken child who’s never allowed or forced to grow up, skimming through her adult life and relationships without ever really interacting with them, trying to find meaning in the one constant in her world, death.
For those of you (and there are many) who enjoyed Tim Waggoner’s zombie PI tale, Nekropolis, you don’t have to wait until book 2 (Dead Streets) is out to get your next Matt Richter fix. Tim’s written a Matt Richter short story, which appears in the new anthology, Spells of the City.
Meanwhile, over at Punk Talk, (the blog of genre writer Jeffrey Thomas) Andy Remic talks about his writing career and his plans for the future.
Although originally I did start writing fantasy before I wrote SF, and was (and still am) deeply inspired by the fantasy works of David Gemmell. I’ve also brought along my thriller writing action skills to the writing of fantasy, so instead of bumbling along for 200 pages describing the dull politics of a dull-ass world, Kell’s Legend kicks off into action and is a fantasy rollercoaster ride! Great fun to write!! Hopefully, it’s great fun to read!
Meanwhile, don’t forget that every day this week you’ve been able to read the opening 5 chapters or so of Aliette de Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld and Lavie Tidhar’s The Bookman over at My Favourite Books and SF Signal, respectively.
And finally, for those of you who haven’t yet decided to go out and get Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by the incomparable Dan Abnett, pop over to Shadow Writer (horror writer Paul Kane’s blog) where you can read a free extract.
Free Maurice Broaddus!
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No, no, not from some kind of human bondage or incarceration in a dank and dismal prison cell.
Free as in “gratis”, for nowt, zilch, zero spondooliks. To get to the point, Apex are featuring a bloody fabulous short story by Maurice Broaddus, dashing and debonair author of King Maker, which is just the first of three volumes in his frankly brilliant Knights of Breton Court series. It’s called Pimp My Airship, and if that title alone doesn’t make you reach for a damp cloth, well, we’re going to have to take away your membership and boot you out the door, kid.
Go read it now.
